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Bold idea, to take something no one can effectively do outside of very rare exceptions, and think that the problem is that they're not doing it quickly enough. Bold as in terrible. This not only creates the false impression that this is managed in any other way than the patient simply enduring...

Um, no. It should be this way, but obviously it isn't even close to be. Words on paper are just that, words. Unless they're enforced, they have zero value. And this is clearly not enforced, in fact there are multiple sub-disciplines of medicine built around the exact opposite of this. While...

There are loads of failures like this in business and politics. Just not in expert professions, by professionals and with full support from the entire profession. Failures like this are usually caused by not listening to experts. Here it's the professionals themselves making the wrong decisions...

For sure the NIHR Long Covid fund can be put on that list. Way smaller, but essentially just as wasted. A system that isn't bothered with wasting 90% of efforts to begin with, efforts that never had a chance of being useful, is not going to deliver much. A system that cannot reform itself away...

Their response frankly emphasizes that they don't actually consider this part of their remit. It's too important to overlook, this is supposed to be their primary mission. They seem to be about protecting Cochrane, rather than holding it accountable. Just as, clearly, the professional medical...

We have circled back, and it circled us back to hell. It's very hard to put in context the magnitude of this failure, given how it was the lowest of hanging fruits to have ever hung from anything. It's such raw incompetence and complete failure of duty and ethics. I don't think that our...

Honestly, there are very strong parallels to medicine's OK-aying mass infections, dismissing all concerns about harm, and leaded gasoline spewing a neurotoxin in the atmosphere for decades. Absurd that this is still essentially the end tail of medicine's refusal to accept the germ theory of...

The fact that there are already dozens of identical trials, in addition to 3 years of real life experience, makes the NIH exercise experiment so shady and unethical. As if it's needed, when in fact it's the most common thing already tried and failed.

Hard to dispute this when the first study published did exactly that, despite not being credible that the researchers did not understand it. Unless they simply did not bother learning about it beforehand, obviously they knew that standard tests showed nothing and that it would be used to...

There is simply no other context where a billion+ dollar is wasted with nothing to show for it where heads don't roll and entire departments aren't reformed. For sure it happens a lot. Meta has wasted billions on their VR thing. But they're not doing the same thing in loop, they adapt and...

The King looked at his domain, content that the Sun he made rise this morning is giving light and food to his subjects, and ultimately to him and his court. He could not stop thinking of what tragedy would befall his kingdom if one day he failed to rise up, and bring the Sun with him. Oh, King...

Here we find the vast gulf between intelligence and wisdom, which clearly don't always come in pairs. Intelligence is only useful when it's wisely applied. The problem? Clear exertion intolerance. It takes intelligence to figure this out. The solution? Well, the problem, of course. Now this is...

Random thought, but a good name for this could be Lorem ipsum medicine, or Lorem ipsum healthcare. Lorem ipsum is some text that for some reason the typographic industry has used for a long time as a placeholder text. It's still commonly used in design, wherever text should go, Lorem ipsum is...

Honestly, every time I keep seeing rehabilitation feels just as ominous as the word holistic, it pretty much guarantees incompetence*. It's such a mindless obsession, as if all you have to do is just want to treat people, and they will be magically treated. Just like that, like magic! It helps...

I think this should work: https://archive.is/aJnFW.

Another very good article by Yong. But although the attempts are more subtle, the outcomes are the exact same. There is no actual difference in outcome between those who come out and simply assert "not a thing", and those who use dog whistle language to mean the same thing. They really do mean...

What a weird framing. Obviously sick people being denied proper care will continue seeking health care. This is literally what's expected. But it has nothing to do with psychosomatic, it's the denial of care, whatever form or nature it takes. And of course this basically ignores reality. They...

Pretty good report from PBS. Newshour always does well, some of the best in the profession. Although I wish that journalists started reporting more on the broader issue, rather than on individuals. How this was warned about, how little support there actually is, how much disbelief, how little...

Seems... significant. As they mentioned about the peripheral findings, research is aligning in some direction. There was always a giant gap at the center of the central sensitization thing. Well, two if you count the central part, which was merely asserted. But, really: sensitized by what? How...

Then you tested it wrong. Cognitive impairment is one of the most reported issues, and one of the most disabling. This is not credible. And clearly, badly want to attribute this to "stress", which is always poorly assessed and without any depth. I don't even understand what chronic stress as a...